The Gallows Pole

BBC Two, 9pm

Shane Meadows’s first period drama continues with David Hartley (Michael Socha) giving an accidentally hilarious monologue about his spiritual “vision of stag-men”. He tells a roomful of blank-faced friends and family that he knows what he thinks he should do to protect their futures in a changing world: coin-clipping.

Extraordinary Escapes With Sandi Toksvig Channel 4, 9pm

More walks’n’talks with the ever-affable host Sandi Toksvig as she leads holiday companions through the British Isles. In the first of the new series, she and Eddie Izzard venture to Ireland, exploring County Clare, County Kerry and Cork, while bonding over fishing (a first for Izzard) and homemade apple crumble. AC